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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • I generally try to avoid direct links or names to protect the app staying up. But if you look for a telegram related to tiktok and a cloud that should point you in the right direction.

    I’m not surprised by the downvotes on the original comment, it’s a vestige of former redditors who have an attitude that all social media is garbage. I value my digital privacy quite highly and I know how to protect it. I’m confident that a Singaporean company, ByteDance, is much better for data protection than handing it all over to the Zuck.


  • B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldDo you use TikTok?
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    3 months ago

    Unpopular here, but yes, every day. I’ve been on it since 2019 and my wife and I will cuddle and watch tiktoks that we’ve sent each other throughout the day. We call it “TikTokTime” and really it’s just a debrief period after work where we have time to look at the funnies together and decompress.

    I also value tiktok as a social media website independent from influence by the US government that is more privacy-respecting than Instagram or YouTube. I use a modified version of the app that I don’t get shown ads or tiktok shop videos, as well as natively increasing watch speed.

    I am also autistic, as is my wife. She’s also chronically ill. It’s nice that we found online communities of creators who go through the same stuff we do. And when it comes to misinformation, I am very liberal with the block button. The tiktok algo is unmatched by other social media companies.









  • Of course nothing good will come of this discussion, but let’s try.

    Israel was created by western powers and has slowly taken over the land over the past 70 years, forcing Palestinians into smaller and smaller areas until eventually they’re just forced into Gaza. The population density in Gaza is higher than Tokyo, just without anything that would allow for them to live dignified healthy lives.

    The conflict is entirely one-sided, considering Israel has the backing of US military. Israel is commiting war crimes daily, such as using white phosphorus bombs on civilians, which burn the targets down to the bone.

    They justify this by calling the Palestinians subhuman animals and utilize many of the same fascist tactics that Nazis used against Jewish people. They hide behind the idea that if you criticize them then you must be anti-Semitic, as if Zionism has any place in our world.

    Another motivation here is when Israel went to war with Egypt in 2006. Their main goal was to assert dominance in the region so other countries wouldn’t try to mess with them, and they lost horribly. The current situation is just Israel retaking an exam that they failed the first time with an answer key.

    Imagine if someone broke into your home 70 years ago and no one stopped them. Over time, they pushed you further into your home while you were just trying to exist peacefully. Now it’s at a point where you, your grandma, your parents, cousins, aunt, and children all live in the closet together and you’re not allowed out to go to the bathroom or use the kitchen or anything. Your cousin takes a swing at the guys who broke into your home, and now people online really think there’s a debate about whether the intruders “have a right to defend themselves.”